Tomb Raider: I Am Hu Bayi's Cousin

Chapter 135 Stone Gate
"what!"

As they walked, Yang Xueli suddenly called out.

Hu Ming glanced back and saw Yang Xueli take several steps back, as if she had stepped on something.

"What's wrong!" Hu Bayi asked hurriedly.

At this moment, Yang Xueli looked panicked and pointed to the bushes, saying, "There seems to be something there!"

"Something?" Hu Bayi and the other two frowned upon hearing this.

"Let me see!"

Upon hearing this, the fat man grabbed his axe without saying a word and started climbing.

At this moment, Hu Ming took a closer look and chuckled softly.

"Fatty, it's okay!"

"They're just a few dancing grasses!"

The dancing grass looks just like any other grass, but it sways constantly when something passes by, making it look like it's dancing, hence the name dancing grass.

"It's not poisonous and it won't hurt anyone!" Hu Ming said.

After hearing this, Yang Xueli finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Hey! There seems to be a gourd here!" Just then, the fat man seemed to have found a red gourd near the dancing grass. When he opened it, he found a stone gourd that had been dyed red.

"Fatty, you're pretty good!"

"This must be the mark!"

"The temple should be here!"

After Hu Ming finished speaking, he walked forward for a while, and sure enough, he saw a temple in front of him, built against the mountain.

Although the surrounding pillars are completely covered by plants, it still does not affect its existence.

Some of the tiles on the temple have collapsed, and it looks somewhat dilapidated.

Seeing this, Hu Bayi couldn't help but exclaim, "Luckily, this is the acupoint of the water dragon vein, which can gather and retain energy; otherwise, this temple would probably have collapsed!"

Hu Ming looked around and saw that the temple had also been taken over by some plants.

"Let's go in and take a look!"

At this moment, they entered the temple, which was not very large, and the statues of gods enshrined in the main hall had fallen to the ground.

What kind of temple is this?

"How come I've never seen such a deity before!"

The fat man pointed to the dark statue on the ground and said with some doubt. Hu Bayi shook his head, indicating that he didn't know either.

As for Shirley Yang, she grew up abroad and has no idea about these things.

At this moment, Hu Ming stepped forward, glanced at the scene, and said calmly.

"It should be the mountain god worshipped here."

The statue's face was black, its eyes were tightly closed, and it had no other expression, yet it gave people a cold and majestic feeling.

Behind it stood two little devils with ferocious faces, one holding a red gourd in one hand and the other holding a toad in both hands.

Knowing there wasn't much in the front hall, Hu Ming bypassed the statues on the ground and headed straight for the back hall.

When Hu Bayi saw Hu Ming enter the back hall, he followed after him.

In the rear hall, Hu Ming found the stone door he remembered and walked over to it.

The stone gate was shaped like a toad with its mouth wide open, and strange symbols were carved on it, giving it an indescribable eeriness. Hu Bayi stepped forward to take a look. The markings on the gate were the same as those on the map, leading him to believe that this was definitely an underground passage.

But... the mechanism on this door is so strange!
Although Hu Bayi was also proficient in some mechanisms, the workmanship of this mechanism was too intricate, and anyone who did not know how to solve it simply could not open it.

"Mingzi, this thing is a bit sharp!"

"It's hard to handle? Let me take a look!"

As he spoke, Hu Ming stepped forward to examine the mechanism lock on the stone door.

Then, Hu Ming fumbled around on it for a bit, and Hu Bayi heard a "click" sound.

"alright!"

"All done? You're making things too easy."

"Mingzi, why do I feel like you're strolling around your own backyard here?" Hu Bayi said incredulously.

After all, he had seen the mechanism lock earlier, and even if he knew the trick, it would take several hours to open it. He didn't expect Hu Ming to open it so quickly.

The stone door opened, revealing a pitch-black interior. Hu Ming then turned on his searchlight to illuminate the room.

As Hu Bayi walked, he reminded Yang Xueli and Fatty, "Judging from the various schemes outside, this Prince Xian is not someone to be trifled with! Be careful about that when we go down there."

The fat man, however, said nonchalantly, "Old Hu, can you stop acting like a woman, all that fuss! Whatever's down there, we'll deal with it as it comes!"

"No matter what demons or monsters they are, nothing can stop Fatty from taking the funerary objects!"

"I think you'd better stop talking big, Fatty! Don't end up yelling 'Mingzi, save me!'" Hu Bayi said with a laugh.

"Get out!"

At this moment, Hu Minghuang used the searchlight in his hand to look around at the surrounding environment. The structure here was somewhat different from the tomb passages they had seen before.

The tunnel descended, with light stands on both sides, and the lights on the stands were actually on.

The fat man looked at the candlelight on the lamp stand in surprise and said.

"Holy crap! This light is still on! Could it be that those ever-burning lights that Big Gold Tooth talked about really do exist now?"

At this moment, Yang Xueli said with some doubt, "I think no one has been here for at least several hundred years. What kind of fuel could burn for so long?"

The fat man suddenly spoke in a sinister and mysterious tone, "Commander Yang, that's because you haven't heard what Big Gold Tooth said! Ordinary lamp oil certainly wouldn't burn for this long!"

"But lamp oil made from boiled human corpses can!"

Hu Ming felt somewhat helpless upon hearing the fat man's words.

"Fatty, you actually believe what Big Gold Tooth said?"

"He really knows what he'll say when he's had a few drinks!"

"This isn't an ever-burning lamp; it's just the air in the tomb passage. It was extinguished before we came in."

"It's because air came in after we opened the stone door that these lights turned on! That's why it gives people the feeling that these lights have never gone out."

At this moment, the fat man said somewhat awkwardly, "Damn it! I knew that gold-toothed bastard was talking nonsense! He even told me such a detailed story. It turns out he was just lying!"

As Hu Bayi walked, he said to the fat man, "You know what, there's an ever-burning lamp too."

"However, the lamp that has burned for a thousand years isn't made of any corpse oil, it's made of the oil of merfolk from the sea!"

In the blink of an eye, they had reached the end of the tunnel. An underground river appeared before them.

"There really is water!"

Hu Bayi looked at the underground river in front of him in surprise and said, "Fortunately, when we were in the capital, Hu Ming had asked Da Jinya to prepare diving suits. At that time, Hu Bayi and the others were very puzzled."

Everyone's wondering, what's the point of preparing this stuff if we're going into the mountains, not to an underwater tomb?
(End of this chapter)